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Are you learning another language? How far along are you?

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  • P [email protected]

    話 and 語 are different kanji though. One is talk and one is language. 語 does not seem to have 「はな」as a reading according to jisho.org

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    Ah, I didn't even catch that. OK then I might be wrong about it being derived from 話す, ah oh well, we're all learning

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      I'm studying Japanese for over a year now. I recently had another motivation spike after seeing my favorite singer, Ado, live for the first time and understanding just enough to understand that I don't really understand. I have been doing mostly kanji and vocabulary practice with Wanikani over the past time, but since about 2 weeks, I'm going strong again with daily studying.

      I think I'm currently reaching the tipping point where my sentences start to become meaningful, but still take some time to formalize. Having made it a habit to write a few short sentences in 日本語 is something I would definitely recommend, at any level probably. It helps train the learned stuff and adds an immersion factor that is very fun.

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      Definitely, I try as much as I can to use the Japanese keyboard and reading in Japanese. It's a cool language and same, there are some songs that I like that I have no idea what they're singing about

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      • P [email protected]

        話 and 語 are different kanji though. One is talk and one is language. 語 does not seem to have 「はな」as a reading according to jisho.org

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        Ah nice. Thanks. Really need to get better reading Kanji

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        • M [email protected]

          Ah, I didn't even catch that. OK then I might be wrong about it being derived from 話す, ah oh well, we're all learning

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          All good. I'm just glad to get the opportunity to get to talk about this with someone 😄

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            From what I understand (Don't take what I say as correct as it may be wrong) but when 語(はな) hana, which is derived from 話す(はなす) hanasu which is the verb to speak, is paired with a nationality, with some exceptions of course like English which is 英語(えいご) eigo, it describes a language. So, pair 語(はな) hana with 日本(にほん) nihon, Japan in Japanese, then you get 日本語(にほんご) nihongo, meaning Japanese. Another example is French which is フランス語 (Furansugo).

            And 勉強 is the Kanji for べんきょ(benkyo) which means study.

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            Yeah, that was what I assumed. For now Duolingo still uses the ご hiragana for the go part in Nihongo. And the Kanji for べんきょ wasn't introduced yet

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              Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.

              I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to "how are you" and how to say "I am still learning Greek can we speak English". haha

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              I'm learning Esperanto because everything I do has to be esoteric. I understand the fundamentals of the language and my pronunciation is perfect i'd say. I've been learning for a few months and I can read and write basic sentences. I also want to learn Spanish (mostly to flirt) but it's hard to find the time. I'd also like to learn Indonesian, German and Afrikaans.

              Edit: I'd also love to learn Polish but it's so fucking hard.

              Edit 2: Oh and Finnish. I really like languages and I get excited about them.

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              • maggiwuerze@feddit.orgM [email protected]

                All good. I'm just glad to get the opportunity to get to talk about this with someone 😄

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                Trust me, I feel the same

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                • maggiwuerze@feddit.orgM [email protected]

                  Yeah, that was what I assumed. For now Duolingo still uses the ご hiragana for the go part in Nihongo. And the Kanji for べんきょ wasn't introduced yet

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                  I'm using Busuu along with Anki and independent stuff I find online. I used Duolingo for a big part of my study but when I switched to Busuu I quickly realized I didn't know anything about sentence structure, grammer, or even kanji. So, in my opinion, Duolingo is great for learning words and the three writing systems but not so great about learning everything else.

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                    I'm using Busuu along with Anki and independent stuff I find online. I used Duolingo for a big part of my study but when I switched to Busuu I quickly realized I didn't know anything about sentence structure, grammer, or even kanji. So, in my opinion, Duolingo is great for learning words and the three writing systems but not so great about learning everything else.

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                    That's my impression as well and I've only been at it for half a year. In the beginning you would also get grammar help at the start of new chapters, but that stopped relatively quickly, so now it's mostly diy grammar rules by analyzing the sentences. Maybe I'll have a look at Busuu

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                      Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.

                      I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to "how are you" and how to say "I am still learning Greek can we speak English". haha

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                      Да, я изучаю русский язык, но не знаю какой у меня уровень, может быть где-то B1-B2. К сожалению мне не с кем говорить в последнее время 😪

                      I am also trying to improve my English recently, mostly because I am pretty bad at speaking, and pronouncing stuff correctly.

                      I want to learn another language as well, maybe I will return to Czech (I was learning it for 1 month some time ago, and don't remember much, although I understand fairly amount because I am Polish).

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                        Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.

                        I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to "how are you" and how to say "I am still learning Greek can we speak English". haha

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                        Am I learning a new language? No.
                        How far along am I? About halfway.

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                        • A [email protected]

                          Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.

                          I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to "how are you" and how to say "I am still learning Greek can we speak English". haha

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                          I'm learning English and a little bit of Czech (stopped a while ago because of my lazyness but want to start learning Czech again).
                          I think I'm still speak badly in English but I understand it very good.

                          I'm from Ukraine btw

                          (Also does programming languages count? I love Rust)

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                            I'm learning Esperanto because everything I do has to be esoteric. I understand the fundamentals of the language and my pronunciation is perfect i'd say. I've been learning for a few months and I can read and write basic sentences. I also want to learn Spanish (mostly to flirt) but it's hard to find the time. I'd also like to learn Indonesian, German and Afrikaans.

                            Edit: I'd also love to learn Polish but it's so fucking hard.

                            Edit 2: Oh and Finnish. I really like languages and I get excited about them.

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                            Learning Spanish 2 before learning Spanish

                            Interesting

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                              Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.

                              I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to "how are you" and how to say "I am still learning Greek can we speak English". haha

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                              Learning Swedish now, since I already speak passable Norwegian, it's not the hardest endeavor.

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                              • P [email protected]

                                ありがとう。

                                私は質問があります。なぜあなたがフルストップを使わないですか。ドイツ語にはたくさんフルストップがありますから。

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                                I usually do use proper punctuation like the Japanese full stop "。",

                                but recently there's been a trend—especially among younger people—where it's sometimes avoided.

                                Some even call it “maru-hara” (short for “full stop harassment”), suggesting that ending a sentence with "。" can come off as cold or aggressive.

                                I guess that's why I ended up not using it myself, especially in casual contexts like social media.

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                                  Learning Spanish 2 before learning Spanish

                                  Interesting

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                                  Eh, esperanto il like the family guy Noah's ark meme, there's a mishmash of languages. Learning volapük would be esoteric

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                                    *δύσκολο
                                    Συγγραφή would be used to describe authoring a book. You could use γραφή or γράψιμο or a verb construction να γράφεις "to write".

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                                    Σωστά, είναι καιρός που δεν χραφω ελληνικά 😅 🙂

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                                      Möchtest du mit mir sprechen? Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut, aber ich will es lernen.
                                      Ich war im 2003 in Hesse, ich liebe Deutschland

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                                      Das ist doch schon gut. Welche Muttersprache hast Du, und über welche Themen möchtest Du reden?

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                                        Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Eigentum der BRD

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                                        Wir sind großzügig und teilen.

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                                        • A [email protected]

                                          Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.

                                          I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to "how are you" and how to say "I am still learning Greek can we speak English". haha

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                                          I'm not but I'd love to learn some other romance languages, Italian and French would be my choices right now.

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